I would never in a million years have believed that a woman would become president of Harvard University. Harvard University is a one of or may be the top University of the world and up until this point men have been thought of as the most knowledgeable, educated and experienced people to handle top positions like this. This article talks about Dr. Catharine Faust, the women who is to become the new president of Harvard University. Catharine came from Virginia’s “horse land” and was told that the one thing that she was meant to do in life was become a rich mans wife, and that this world that we live in is a mans world and the sooner that learned this the better off she would be. After hearing these things she continued to live her life to defy them. She did many things in her life that most women do not think that they will ever be able to do, she finished college, got her masters, got her doctorate, became a professor and now is becoming the president of Harvard University, wich seems to have come to sort of a surprise to even her . ..
“One of the things that I think characterizes my generation — that characterizes me, anyway, and others of my generation — is that I’ve always been surprised by how my life turned out,” Dr. Faust said in an interview Sunday at Loeb House just after the university announced that she would become its 28th president, effective July 1. “I’ve always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor — I never would have imagined that. Writing books — I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. — I’m not sure I would even have imagined that. I’ve lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.”
After reading this article it really made me think a lot about who really is suppose to be going to the top of things. Why does everyone in this world have a big misconception of what kind of people are suppose to be at the top of this world that we live it. Why is it so un-real that a woman is the President of such a prestigious University? Why does the world think so lowly of women and think that men are the only people that can handle positions like these. Why do we have so many ideas about who is suppose to be in which positions in life? I think that we put way to many stereotypes of what kind of people can be the smart and important. I think that the do this at all levels of things which students in school, with people in regular jobs and in situations like this. I think that we as humans need to keep our minds clear and give everyone a chance to be the best that they can be and get to the top position that they can get to.
The article . . . A ‘Rebellious Daughter’ to Lead Harvard
